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Good morning!

It’s a beautiful bluebird day on Mt. Hood today, and my brain is already looking forward to sunshine and Vitamin D overload. Unfortunately, I forgot my bikini today, but I won’t be so foolish tomorrow.

Mountain Weather Forecast:

Today looks sunny and clear all day, with light and variable wind. The free air freezing level will be 2000’ in the morning, rising to 4000’ in the afternoon.

Tomorrow starts off clear, with the freezing level at 4500’, rising to 7000’ by midday and 9000’ by late afternoon. High clouds will move in sometime in the early afternoon. Winds start off light and variable, rising to W 10-20 by noon and increasing to WNW 20-30 by 7pm. Precipitation should hold off until midnight or so Thursday, but when it comes in, it will come in as r**n for Friday, with the exception of a possible brief period of freezing rain overnight Thursday into Friday morning.

The snow level will be around 7000’ early on Friday, falling to 6000’ by 4pm, possibly briefly dropping to 4000’ overnight, but rising quickly to 8000’ by Saturday morning. The rain will be light between midnight and 11am, becoming moderate from 11am to 4pm, and turning to light sprinkles for the rest of Friday. Total precipitation will be somewhere between .25” and 1”, depending on the exact storm track. Winds on Friday start at WNW 20-30, rising to WNW 30-40 by noon, dropping slowly to NW 20-30 by midnight.

Saturday looks warm, with possible light sprinkles through 10am, or possibly just dry conditions. Total precip will be less than .1”. It’s going to be fairly warm, with the free air freezing level somewhere between 6000’ and 10000’. Winds early Saturday will be somewhere between W and N at 15-20, becoming light and variable by noon.

Sunday looks dry and warm.

That concludes your morning weather forecast. The moonset was amazing, the sunrise is beautiful, as always, and you should make at least one run today! Have a great day!

Wind forecast:

Today and tomorrow look quite light in the Gorge, but there’s a very good chance we’ll see sailable west winds in the 24-27 range in the Corridor on Friday, as a summer-like high pressure system sets up off the coast.

Temira

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Good morning!

You would think that I could learn. If I don’t load the models by 7:45, I have to wait to do the forecast until 8:45 or so when the next model run is complete.

The rest of today looks – yay – snowy, with steady snow falling from now until 10pm. The snow level will be 3500-4000’ today. Winds will be NW at 15-20 down low, and 40-60 up high. Total precip between 4am today and 4am tomorrow will be .3-.5” of water value for 4-6” of new snow.

Tomorrow looks clear and cold, with the free air freezing level around 3000’. We’ll see light north or east winds and zero precipitation.

Thursday morning looks clear and cold, with clouds moving in during the afternoon. The free air freezing level will rise to 7000’ by afternoon. Winds will be light in the morning, rising to W 20-30 by 4pm. Precipitation starts as rain or freezing rain (there’s a bit of an inversion around 7-8000’) around 7pm. The chance of freezing rain ends around 1am as all precip switches to rain below 7000’. Total precipitation before 4am will be less than .1” of water value.

Friday looks rainy (well, sprinkly… I don’t want to bring a vision of last Sunday into your head), with r**n starting around 10am, and continuing until 1am Saturday. Winds on Friday will be SW 15-20, switching to W 15-25 by 4pm. The snow level will hold around 7500’. Total precipitation will be .25-.5”, all falling as rain. That rain will taper off by Saturday morning.

At this time, Saturday through Tuesday look dry and sunny.

In other, interesting news, there appears to be a new sandbar developing in the Columbia across from the Spring Creek Fish Hatchery. The Hood peaked at 12.94 feet at 9pm on the 16th, with a flow of 13,600 cfs. The peak wind gust at Arlington yesterday was 48mph at noon. Next chance for windsurfing in the Gorge is Friday, as an upper level low passes along the BC/Washington border.

Pray for snow!

Temira

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